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It is widely believed even today that most of the water on our planet along with other 'iron-loving' elements were brought to Earth during the last couple of hundred million years by asteroids, meteorites, comets and other such objects passing through the inner regions of the solar system. FSU's Depart... |
5 May 2008
10:27 GMT |
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The model of planet formation in our solar system is currently very simple and easy to understand. All planets formed from the same materials inside the matter disk spinning around the Sun, thus spawning four most inner rocky planets and four gas giants. The raw material for the four inner planets is believed to have... |
20 March 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Mining diamonds from Earth's crust is a messy business, especially if you consider that they are rather rare on the surface. Scientists predict that larger amounts of diamonds may be found in our planet's inner regions where they usually form; however, the enormous pressure inside the Earth and the great de... |
27 February 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Asteroids, like most of the bodies in the solar system, have stable orbits around the Sun, as all of them have their origins in the debris left behind by the planet formation process. They are spread through all over the solar system, but are mostly concentrated in an area of space called the asteroid belt, situated ... |
17 December 2007
09:27 GMT |
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Among the strategies regarding the possibility of preventing a catastrophic event, such as Earth colliding with a large asteroid or comet, we can find early detection, asteroid deflection or possibly the destruction of the object intersecting Earth's orbit. Some of these precautions could rise more problems than... |
17 November 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Several movies have been made during the years depicting the potential catastrophic consequences of an asteroid or a comet intersecting Earth's orbit, and smashing onto its surface, or potential deflection strategies to avoid such a scenario.There are a lot of NEOs or Near Earth Objects, in the planet's orb... |
13 November 2007
03:01 GMT |
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